Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
HENRY JAMESTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
More Henry James Quotes
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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